Fishing reel



Original application filed June 2, 192 2, Serial No. 565,377, now Patent No. 15871437, dated August Divided and this application filed June 27, 1927. Serial No. 201,740.

' made 0 a division of my'prior reels, dated August 2, 1927, No. 1,637 ,437.

Patented Apr. 26-, 1932" UNITED STATES PATENT. O

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- or AKRON, onro FISHING REEL This invention relates to improvements in fishing reels, the present application being patent for fishing The general object of the present invention is the provision of an improved spoolstructure for fishing reels, said structure embodying a die cast spool member mounted upon and adapted for rotation with a steel spool shaft, with the openings for attaching the line to the spool structure extending through an annular enlargement of the spool member in spaced relation to the spool shaft.- Saidopenings are therefore not only simple and easy to form but inasmuch as said openings are spaced from the steel spool shaft, the line is never damaged by the rusting of said shaft,

Further objects of the invention are in part obvious and in part will appear more in detail hereinafter. I

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevationof a fishing reel embodying my invention, with the spool structure and its driving mechanism in section, the real click structure,

which is shown in the above referred to application, being here omitted for simplicity of illustration; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the middle portion of the spool structure; and Fig. 3 is a detail cross-sectional view on the line 33, Fig. 1, and showing the line attaching openings.

The fishing reel illustrated in the drawings comprises a suitable frame including end plates or heads 1, 2 connected by pillars 3, l

with a hollow gear casing 4 suitably attached to the end plate or head 1. Rotatably mounted between said plates or heads is a line receiving spool, which includes a spool mem- -ber having a sleeve portion 6 and two slightly flaring but comparatively flat heads 7. The sleeve portion 6 and the heads 7 of the present spool member are of integral construction, said spool member, as 'well as the reel end lates 1, 2 and the reel casing 4, being die castin s, which enables these parts to be accurate y cast to form without the necessity of turning or other finishing operations, which materially reduces the cost-of the reel. Extending through the sleeve Portion 6 of this iproof member is a hardened steel spool sha 8, of relatively hard metal,

said spool member being fast on said shaft so I that it will rotate therewith. The spool structure is provided with hue,

ranged in balanced relation on opposite sides of the spool shaft and extend through an annular enlargement 6a of the spool sleeve portion located at substantially the middle thereof. The balancing of the spool by the provision of two line attaching openings on opposite sides and preferably at substantialreceiving holes or openings which extend ly the middle of the spool shaft is ofthe greatest importance for without such a balance, good casting is extremely difficult if not impossible. Enlarging the spool sleeve portion to receive these line attaching openings is also quite important as it permits said openings to be made large enough to enable a line to be conveniently secured therein and yet, theline receiving capacity of the spool is not materially reduced, as it would be if the sleeve'portion of the spool were enlarged throughout its entire length.

One of the projecting end portions of the spool shaft 8 is reduced at 10 and. rotates in a bearing member 11 suitably attached to the reel end plate or head 2. End play is received and taken up by an agate or other hardened end bearing 13 in a cap 14 threaded upon the bearing member 11.

The other projecting end portion of the spool shaft is first flattened off on two sides,

as at 15, for driving connection in a transverse recess 16 in the end of a small pinion 17, is then reduced to cylindrical form at 18 where the shaft passes through the opening in said pinion, and is again reducedat 19 for support in an end'bearing structure 20 similar to the one at the opposite end of the spool shaft. I

The gear casing 4 is provided with an outwardly extending tubular boss 21 in which is arranged a hardened steel bushing 22. Through this bushing and boss projects a hollow or sleeve-like extension 23 of the maindriving gear 24 which meshes with and drives the pinion 17 on the spool shaft. The gear 24 is rotatably mounted upon a stub shaft 25 suitably secured to the head plate 1,

and is driven by a handle 27 secured by a cap nut 28 to a square portion of the gear extension 23. By turning the handle 27, the spool may be driven in either direction, as will be readily understood.

Havin described my invention, I claim:

In a fishing reel, a line receiving spool comprising a hardened steel shaft and a die cast spool member mounted thereon for rotation therewith, said spool member having a pair of relatively flat headsw'connected by a sleeve portion having a uniform bore through which said shaft extends and in which said shaft fits and is secured, said sleeve portion bein provided intermediate its endswith an annu ar, outwardly projectin through which extend two line attaching openings arranged in balanced relation on opposite sides of the spool shaft but spaced outwardly therefrom so that the line can not come into contact therewith and be dam- I aged thereby.

' In testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature.

- FRANCIS M. CASE.

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